To follow on from the retail sighting of Combiner Wars Legends Wave 5, we’ve also got a report that Deluxe Wave 6 has been found! Combiner Wars Deluxe Wave 6 is the second “Autobot assortment”, reimagining a quartet of Autobots from the first two years of the Transformers line as combiner limbs! In this assortment, we get new versions of Wheeljack, Hound, Trailbreaker, and Smokescreen.
These four were spotted by TFW2005 member slpolk21 at a Walmart in Pasadena, MD. Happy hunting, one and all!
D-Bot
Got this set yesterday at Target in Irvine, CA
They had 2 sets on the shelf – I bought 1
Nevermore
So every major TF site now has sightings for these:
Seibertron (Toys"R"Us in Raleigh, North Carolina)
TFormers (Target in Chicago, Illinois)
Allspark (Walmart in Henrietta/Rochester, New York)
Nemesis Scott
They've hit Rochester NY – one full set at Henrietta WalMart, took all four
Thundershot
I'm just saying that if you rely on hunting, you may NEVER find a certain figure. Especially at the end of a series, that last wave can be a bitch.
While gas prices currently aren't a factor, TIME is, for me, at least. The prices on BBTS and Amazon aren't much different from retail. My time is more valuable than anything, so preordering what I want and 99.9% guaranteeing I get the figures I want is so much less stressful. Definitely not fun to hunt for something that may not even be out there when you could be doing something more productive.
AutobotAlvaron
Distribution across the US is slow and spotty at best (to the frustration of most collectors and some children & their parents), and though that's mainly the fault of the big-box stores, Hasbro seems unwilling or unable to do anything about it.
Once upon a time, I too enjoyed hunting the various Walmarts & Targets in my area until my prey became nearly extinct. Now BBTS, HTS, Amazon, & EBAY are my occasional expensive alternative when gas-wasting, time-eating, cross-town searches prove useless.
Higher prices, cheaper/hollow plastic, less paint, and no new product on barren store shelves, yup there's a winning sales strategy, that has been going on for years now…
Cykill 1
Plus it's fun to hunt down these figures. At least for me it is.
Raiyuki
I prefer not to pay the higher price of online retailers nor do I care to have to keep up with when HTS or something has a sale or not. Plus it's easier to budget with in store stuff for me. I'm in no rush to get stuff first; the majority of the time I visit a store it's on the way anyway. It's also nicer to see figures in person before purchase.
I just can't get into depending on online stores for this stuff.
Trip2boy
Really? My stores have bigger displays than that.
Okay, like a fourth bigger.
Kyle Blues
AOE's absurd ammount of cheap toys shelf-warmed so hard that most stores I found no longer carry transformers. OR look similar to what's posted here.
Lady Slipstream
Thundershot
I still can't get over how so many people still depend on finding things at retail. I gave that shit up years ago..
Raiyuki
In my humble opinion Hasbro should've slowed down when designing Bruticus in the first place.
T-Logicon
Walmart is selling tfs again?
Oh.
DeletedUser_85176
I live in MD and I haven't seen any indications of wave 5 let alone 6…dammit! I hate the distribution in this area!
Edwardmus Prime
Hopefully they roll around here and I can purchase them, or at least Hound. I've been waiting on it for what feels like a really long time. Been needing a Hound and Wheeljack for my collection, while also wanting a Trailbreaker.
GotBot
Good grief, and we are still waiting on wave five here!! (Well, we had limited combaticon limbs, but no voyager OR Legends yet!!!) Great distribution Hasbro,lol.
jalrian
Pretty much anything 2016 can't be found near me, except for a couple of bionicles. this makes me worry that wave 5 of deluxes won't show up at all.
artiepants
I wonder if Takara will release this wave:
A. At All
B. With Skylynx
or
C. With Battlecore Prime or a repaint of that mold
???
guard convoy
hopefully this means my walmart will restock, they haven't stocked any transformers since early december. hopefully this means i will finally find a damn onslaught
Slingshot
Finally. I've been waiting for awhile to find the Deluxe Wave at retail.